BOLD VENTURE
Adventure, intrigue, mystery, romance starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall
Together in the sultry setting of tropical Havana and the mysterious islands of the Caribbean, BOLD VENTURE
Once again the magic names of Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall bring you BOLD VENTURE and a tale of mystery and intrigue
Slate, I just had a thought
Well let you and me keep it to yourself, huh? Until I finish totaling up the hotel expenses for the day
Sure, how can a man think about two things at once when he's pitting his brain against an adding machine?
Well this one's shifty, I've got to watch it
You and your army surplus bargain, what's it doing to you this time?
Look at that, look at that total, $49,685 for a day's expenses? That's what I always say about you Slate, you've sure got a head on your shoulders
Well that was just a trial run, I'm going to have at it once more
What did you pay for the cake you bought for that dinner party?
I told you, ten pesos
You could have got it for six, the Signora Sanchez is delicatessen
The last time I was there, Signora Sanchez made me help her fold strudel
Now look sailor, one of the reasons I went into the hotel business was so that at the end of a day's work I could cuddle up with a clear buck
To save four pesos you could have folded a strudel or two
Mr. Slate, there are too many arrows
Don't bother to tell him boy, we're working out together, him and me and Rhino here
Yeah together and the lady too, alright then it'll be a party
All we need is one more guest, Matt Wallace, invite him Slate, it won't be fun without him
Matt Wallace? I haven't seen Matt in, oh let's see it must be ten, twelve years in Dallas
We'll work in the oil fields together, dream we'd strike it one day
You're telling me Matt's here in Havana?
I'd like to see him
You will Slate, honest you will, Rhino and me's got a feeling he's going to come here and throw his arms around his old buddy
We want to be here to watch
Yeah we got a feeling we want to watch
We'll let you know when Matt comes, if he comes
Goodbye boys, sorry to break up the party
He should say goodbye, the lady's saying goodbye
King
Yes Mr. Slate, I escort them out for you, come on you two
Rhino, the boy wants to play, play with him Rhino
I like you Ray, you're good for me, let's play boys
You did the wrong thing Mr. Allen
This is a nice party, games and everything
Slate get him off, hang your tail
Slate, I don't mind playing with you, let the boys have their fun till Matt comes
I hope he doesn't come for a long time Ray
Ray, Ray is that you? I'm in the kitchen
Well how did...
Oh, Matt, he came back
I won't ask you anything about Ray
What do you want?
You're my wife, I want you to listen to me
About what?
Let's give Shannon all of it Vi
Oh you're crazy
Listen Vi, we don't need a deed deal or I'll strike a shot and get out of here, go someplace
There's a million places Vi, I'll show them all to you
We haven't given ourselves a chance you see
Just tell me a thing will you?
What Slate, Shannon got to do with you?
Twelve years ago we gave each other a promise
You're crazy Matt, you really are
The man I took for a husband is out of his mind
You don't know Shannon, he'd have done the same for me
He'd strike oil and give you half for a twelve year old promise
Shannon would
Oh if you'd only tell me where Matt, just tell me where you made the strike so I'll know
In case something...
In case anything happens to me, forget it
I try to all the time, I can't sleep worrying about something might happen to you
Vi, listen to me, just listen
You'd better get out of here husband
Alright, to Shannon, like I said I would
I hope you make it husband
I told you once Rhino, don't make me tell you again
Leave the boys guitar alone
Alright, I gotta keep doing something with my hands, you know that
Just waiting around makes me edgy
Don't pout Rhino, maybe you'll find you someone else to beat up
I'll fill in the gap till Matt Wallace gets here
You'd do that for your boy, wouldn't you Ray? Toss him a bone like that?
Anytime he cries for it, you'll remember
How can he forget? You always referee Rhino's matches with a gun Ray
In some crazy places that could be called no contest
My boy's fast but sometimes he's outweighed, the gun evens it up
I have to take care of my boy
King to take him in a round, couldn't you King?
He's strong Mr. Slit, it might take longer than that
You're a smart boy, Rhino cut you to pieces, people Rhino is smart enough that way
Still I'd like to match you two for real sometimes
But some other time
Well, look who's here
Hello Matt, you kept us waiting
Slit, it's been 12 years, I counted him
Me too Matt
Meet your reception committee Matt, Ray and Rhino, funny sounds witty sayings
Ray, I've heard that name
A little while ago my wife called me Ray
A woman gets confused sometimes, Ray, Matt, close enough
This won't take long Matt, what have we been waiting for?
Just tell me where you made the oil strike and we can part friends
You made a strike Matt, you come to tell me that?
Yeah kid, all those years I finally made it
But it's just for you and me, no one else
Hear that Rhino, he's gone to his head, the man's oil happy
Yeah to his head, oil happy
I'll hit him Matt, I'll stick Rhino on you
Cost me too much, cost me too many years, you left the Rhino
Yeah, yeah
Oil, sweet slaps
You fool Rhino, you crazy stupid fool, I'd like to shoot him
You told me, you said
Get out of here quick
King help me with him
He's alive Lady Selah, we get him to doctor
Take care of him
I'm going after him
Wait, wait
There's a piece of paper in my pocket
The Slate's have
It belongs to it
Tell him I get the doctor
Get a police doctor King, it's more in his line
You've been gone for a long time Slate, what happened?
I lost him, how's Matt?
They took him away on a stretcher, the doctor doesn't know whether he'll live or die
He'll live, all they have to do is give him a piece of adhesive tape and point in the direction of home
The police were here too, wrote in little black books, asked questions, wanted to know where you were
What did you tell them?
I raised an eyebrow and smiled archly, the police giggled and nudged each other
They don't know I was here when this shooting happened huh?
No, they kept hitting each other with their elbows, I had to remind them what they came for
Uh huh
Who's Matt Wallace Slate?
Guy, I used to know him
He gave me something for you, here, this
16 Avanada Charles of Anticuba
I Matt Wallace do hereby deed to Slate Shannon
He's giving you 50% of an oil field, I read it
What are you looking out of the window for Slate?
Slate, I'm talking to you
You say something?
Who's Matt Wallace? Why did he?
50%, what do you know?
What's the matter with you? Who's Matt Wallace? What's all this about?
Okay, okay, you imagine a guy like that, sailor?
Like what?
12 years ago, Matt and I worked the oil fields together
12 years ago, we gave up, Matt and I
We shook hands, we told each other if we ever hit, half of it would belong to the other
Then we walked away
What do you know, Matt remembered, an oil strike
Hey, where are you going?
What do you want?
I'm a friend of Matt Wallace's, I thought
How'd you find me?
This address was scribbled on a piece of paper Matt gave me
I didn't know you came with it
If I'd known, I'd have got here sooner
That'd make you Slate Shannon
Come on in
You can close your eyes to how the place looks, I've been tearing it apart
The cheap way they make things nowadays is easy to tear apart
That's how you feel about Matt, you rip open his upholstery?
I'm his wife, he hides things from me
Like where he made his oil strike?
You see right through a girl, don't you Slate?
The things she wants, the people she wants to divvy him with
Now you take me, I'm not like that at all
Matt says I get half, it's a pact we made, I'm selfish
I don't want to share it with anybody
Oh, but you will with me, for a reason I've got
Hmm, that's a good reason, now try me with another one
You're a lot like Matt, he'd have to be bled for your secrets
Ray
Glad you joined us Ray, I've been looking for you
Want me to do something for you, Vi?
The man's got a tight mouth, take him someplace and it'll loosen it for him
Anything for you sugar, it'll be easy Slate
I'll take you to Rhino, you can ride along on this gun
Sorry Vi, the man's got me over a barrel, bye sugar
Okay Shannon, out of the car
You don't budge, how friendly the man says
The odd nights you can do with a little help, he learns easy Ray
On your feet Shannon, you're going to say for a while let's make that striker
We're going to leave you here on the beach for the gulls
The gulls will get you if you don't watch out
Funny, ain't it funny Shannon?
Laugh, I said laugh
You don't know what you're doing, where's the strike?
I don't know, I keep telling you
Rhino, you remember Kansas City?
When I had the main goal, sure sure I remember
Tell Shannon, tell him
Listen good Shannon, I threw two rights, like this
Then the big one
Did you see, did you see Ray?
Just like in Kansas City
Yeah, I'll say a word or two and I'll throw some sand in his face
Now back to Bold Venture
Our stars Humphrey Bogart and Lauren McCall
And the second act of our story
Miss Saylor, she got a big suspicion
Say to King Moses, go on a mission
Find Slate Shannon wherever he be
In Barrio on Beach, bring him to me
King Moses, he look all over place
Find Mr. Shannon with sand in face
Bring him home to Lady Saylor
Now his head need very fine tailor
He's home King Moses, but his heart's not in it
Something's happened to Slate Shannon
He's been walking up and down on that patio for an hour now
He done that before Lady Saylor
He's thinking about things, remembering things
Things that happened a long time ago
I felt like I was watching a stranger
This fever for oil
King, hey King, yes Mr. Slate
Hi Slate
Hello, King, what'd you do with my gun?
It's in the...
Don't tell him
Slate, why don't you talk to me?
What's happened to you that you need a gun?
Off the arm Saylor, come on, come on, where's the gun?
You gonna tell me, King, or am I gonna have to convince you?
Miss Saylor
Tell him
I'll get it, Mr. Slate
Here, the gun
Now you're on an oil strike, Slate
What are you going to do?
Kill people for the sheer joy of it?
I don't know where the strike is, I can't claim it
Why don't you ask Matt?
The hospital won't let me see him
He's unconscious, he'll probably die
You're going to help him along with a gun?
Look, Saylor, Matt liked to talk
Somewhere in Havana, he must have dropped a word
I'm gonna find out where
See ya
You were right not to call out to him, Miss Saylor
He had the look of a man to whose stopping could not be done
He had the look of a man who ought to be banged over the head with a blunt instrument
You will wait for him?
No, I'm going to share it with him
Like the man said, see ya
You lost it, Ray
You and your ape, Rhino, lost it
Be kind to us, sugar
If Slate didn't spill after what Rhino did to him, they never will
You should have been there to see me by, I was going good
It's just that the punk washed out on me before I could
That's what you did to Matt
That was bright too, huh?
Shutting his mouth with a bullet
Here he's in the hospital, alive
Rhino could pry his mouth open again
He's got a gun, he's got a gun
Alive, Rhino could pry his mouth open again
He could die too, without making a sound
Yeah, that's possible
Maybe half a million in oil
A girl could buy a moon for that and all the little moons
Only she doesn't know where it is
Maybe we know someone who does, sugar
Who?
The girl that's known as Sailor Deval
She was alone with Matt when Slate ran after us after we shot her husband
You think he told her?
He must have thought he was dying
The man tells the girl a lot of things when he's dying, especially about a long dream that came true
All right, get her
Talk to her
See how easy it is when you're nice, sugar?
Let's go, Rhino, bring your fist
Gee, Senor Sean, such a man as you are described as here to eat on my blue plate
What did he say? What did he talk about?
Senor
You don't have to get cagey with me, Pedro. What did he tell you about the oil?
Aye, the oil, he should not do much in the South
I'm going to have to beat it out of you, Pedro
Senor, you have best with your belt on
Nice going, brave man
Six more inches and Pedro will top five feet
What do you want, Sailor?
I'm worried about you
Do something clever with a handkerchief, cry in it
Come on, Slate, you've been going to these places all night. What's gotten you?
It's gotten me you. Stop following me, get out of here
Slate, you've got to listen
I don't have to listen to you, I don't have to listen to anybody
Get out of here
All right, Slate
You're difficult to keep up with, there's a lot of people out there
I'm not going to let you get away with this
You're difficult to keep up with, Miss Deval
Well, hooray
Get away from here
It's been a bad night
Then let's get out of it
Let's say hello to each other at my place
It's not much what we ask, Miss Deval
Just a few pretty words out of your pretty lips
Yeah, pretty lips
Why, Rhino, I didn't think you cared for things like that
I thought with you it was just broken bones
Anyone's, Mr. Val, even yours
Isn't that so, Rhino?
Stop putting words in the man's mouth
Even yours, Mr. Val, just like Grey said
Just tell us what Matt told you
As near as I can remember, all he did was groan
And after that he told you where he made his oil strike
After that, all he did was groan, like this
That's a good word, you pronounce it good
But Rhino can teach you to do it better
I'm with you, kid, sure he could
But it's all Matt told me
Maybe it is, maybe Slate Shannon would be a better teacher
Better than Rhino, even
You're going to get Slate to beat me up?
Just to die for you, Mr. Val
That's all we'll ask him to do
Just die, right in front of you
Gee, Moses is happy to see you come home, Mr. Slate
I'm tired
And Miss Salo, she is very tired too
Salo?
Did she not come home with you?
No, isn't she home?
Maybe she still looked for you
She found me a dozen times, I finally got rid of her
Rid of Lady Salo? This she will never do
You send her away, she will come back
If she not come back, you will go for her
No thing will change this, not you
No there are that makes a mind that's in you
You don't know how it is
Slate Shannon speaking
Yeah
Yeah, sure
Right away
I was a hospital king
Lady Salo, something happened?
The best thing in the world has happened, Matt Wallace just regained consciousness
He wants to talk to me
About the oil, Mr. Slate?
Do not go to him
What's the matter? Have you gone crazy too?
Hi Matt
Are they treating you good?
Yeah, took a long time coming to see me here in the hospital
They wouldn't let me in
Said you were unconscious, said you were dying
Where is it Matt? Where did you make the strike?
What's to laugh?
We wasted a sweet part of our lives
Looking for oil, you found it
Half of it's mine, like we agreed
Like we met a Salamose
I won my half Matt
There isn't any oil
Never was
It's a game I played with myself
You're lying, you don't want me in on it
You're wrong, there's a hole in Brazil
A deep, deep hole
With a brine at the bottom, salty to the taste
Take it kid
It's yours, all of it
What are you talking about?
There's a lot for me Slate, that empty hole in the earth
I told her I'd struck oil
Some place in South America
Kept my wife loving me
I held it's promise up to her nose
For that she loved me
For that she tried to get me killed
With her deeds she gave sailor
What kind of a thing was that to do to me?
I thought she'd help me Slate
Help me keep up my little game
So my wife would keep on loving me
Not Ray
Not anyone
You look tired kid
You better get some sleep
Yeah
You too
Don't
Don't give it up Slate
I'll find it, I'll still find it, you'll see
Sure you will Matt
Sure you will
It won't take twelve years this time Slate
I got an idea, a hunch
Have a nice visit
Have a nice visit with the sick Mr. Sharn
Oh yeah
I know I sure did
You should have been here
I'm polite, I wait for your sign to hold
You're going on another visit friendie
You think so?
I don't think
Ray does that for me
Ray you're the gun in your back with just my bare hands
See the hospital sign friendie
It says quiet
That's how I want you to be
Quiet
Let's go friendie
How'd you get here Taylor?
When you threw me away a man came up and took my arm
I'm sorry for that
Slate
Go shove your head in a derrick
This Duval says she doesn't know where the oil is either Shannon
Why bother her?
I know
The man gets older he learns more
It works this way Shannon
You tell me where the oil strike is
You and the girl here join hands and skip all the way home
If I don't you kill me huh?
Both of you, you and the lady
One at a time
Rhino can do it without blood
Yeah, yeah he was telling me on the way down
Twenty fights, eighteen knockouts
One man died
Yeah one man
Why'd that happen Rhino?
Toledo my best fight
You never got me in Toledo did they Ray?
Where's the strike Shannon?
I wish you could have seen the newspaper clipping
They talked about it, they wrote about it
Took my picture with a movie actor
They call her a starlet eye with great until later
Show me what happened in Toledo
Huh?
Come on Rhino show me a great fighter like you
Show me on Ray so I can see what happened
Take him Rhino, take Ray like you did with that guy in Toledo
So I can see what you did
Yeah, you're crazy
You're a punch on crazy man
You're into one toe
Rhino
Then downstairs
In the
In the house
That's how I was
Until later
The other guy
Laying on the deck
But
But the other guy
Didn't even get to me
Not like that
You're such a smart man Slate
You open your mouth and people drop like flies
I'm not done yet
There's another one, a woman
Vi Wallace, what are you going to do to her?
Just mention her name to the police
Go on home sailor
You told me that before, look what happened
I told you I was sorry
You can stay if you believe me
I'll leave you
You're sure it's all over Slate
The oil, the fever for it
Who needs oil?
Like what?
A hotel, a boat, a friend, King Moses
What else?
You
That's my old Slate
See what it gets you?
Yeah, sure
What did you say sailor?
You've got a far away look in your eye
They're wildcating oil in Brazil, I read about it
You're going to Brazil?
Goodbye
How can I go when I've got you around my neck?
No you haven't
Give me your arms
Now I have
Better than wildcatting
I don't know
I never kissed a wildcat
And so our two stars
Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall
Have brought to a close
Our latest bold venture story
Special music was composed and conducted by
David Rhodes
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